I have a feeling that this system might tank. I can't put my finger on it but I doubt it'll have the mass appeal of the Wii. Unless they flood it with shitty shovelware that the general populace eats up, that is:/

reigon lock = no buy until smasn bros,fire emblem and a zelda game with normal controls. from the research ive done it seems european importers is the primary reason for reigon locking.(not blaming you guys)i predict wii u will fare like the dreamcast.

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“Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.”

The Dreamcast's Japanese launch was a complete disaster. It literally only had four games, and they were all terrible. Shockingly they didn't sell many systems at first...

Its US launch (which was almost a whole year later) was considerably more successful. Probably Sega's most successful launch, though it still doesn't even come close to what the PS2 did the following year. It's all relative, I guess.

Anyway, this is Nintendo we're talking about. They certainly have the production capacity and we're still a couple months out and yet Gamestop is no longer taking pre-orders since they're all sold out already. What does that tell you?

I gave up my Wii-U preorder to a friend of our family when I told them about how they'd be waitlisted.

That was my good deed of the day.

And due to shitty Gamestop/EB Employee Discounts, and the fact the job pays like all shitty retailers do, 3/4 of us who pre-ordered it at work have cancelled it due to limited income. The last guy lives on his own, it may be 4 for 4 soon.

I might get the Wii-U to play games like Mario Galaxy....if they somehow upscale the resolution or something

While it's not resolution upscaling I actually do wonder if the HDMI could put out a clearer picture. It's been noted by people with the GC Digital Cable that games look much nicer over that than when played on the Wii through its component cables, so hopefully something similar can happen with Wii games and HDMI there.